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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Summer.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the point of view of the novel?
(a) Third person limited.
(b) Second person.
(c) First person.
(d) Third person omniscient.

2. What does Dolly Sargent use to nurse her baby on the ship?
(a) A hollowed out gourd filled with milk.
(b) A rubber glove.
(c) A wooden cup.
(d) Cleaned pig intestines.

3. How does Marguerite get a bruise on her forehead?
(a) She is kicked by one of the children in their sleep.
(b) She is hit with debris while helping to save the livestock during a storm.
(c) She is punished by Joel Sargent for insolence.
(d) She falls below deck during the storm.

4. What is Passageewakeag?
(a) An Indian term for place of ghosts or spirits.
(b) An Indian term for holy land.
(c) A French term for homeland.
(d) A French term for cemetery.

5. How much older than Marguerite is Caleb?
(a) A year.
(b) Two years.
(c) The same age.
(d) Three years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marguerite quickly learn a bound-out girl is not expected to hold?

2. Why has the author begun her book with the poem Maypole Point?

3. What are the mugs made of that Aunt Hespa serves milk in after Marguerite's ordeal in the channel saving the cows?

4. Who is Champlain?

5. What do the children eat with their bread that makes Dolly worry about their cleanliness?

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